Thursday, October 24, 2002

 

So!.....Let's recap:

Friendly Neighborhood Sniperman turns out to be (1) American, (2) a career-military guy, (3) a combat veteran, (4) Black, (5) Islamic, (6) HELL! Nation Of Islam!!!, (7) homeless, (8) who's partner is an illegal alien, (9) all wrapped up in possible man-boy-love overtones!

IS THERE ANY SPECIAL-INTEREST, VICTIMIZED, ENTITLEMENT-CLASS GROUP LEFT OUT OF THAT LIST???

(I'm so happy!)

posted by huggy 9:29 PM

Tuesday, October 22, 2002

 

With apologies to the actual families of the actual ten individuals who were killed by Sniperman, in my mind the worst thing he has done to America is to expose to us in harsh detail our national weaknesses.

"In days of old when men were bold" (a time recent enough that I vaguely remember it), such a "crisis" would have produced the following response: Men in the affected communities and the surrounding countryside would have, without invitation or draft, grabbed THEIR hunting rifles and gathered in the very parking lots so recently bathed in blood, and would have formed up shifts--and would have provided 24-hour shoulder-to-shoulder armed patrol of EVERY wooded area in a 100-mile radius, and all Chief Moose would have had to do was to award the bounty to the group of guys who drug in the carcass of Sniperman--after which they would have taken the bounty check to the local bar and every participant in the posse would have toasted to their success--then gone home and wiped their muddy boots on their now-safe front porches.

Nowadays the accepted response is for the entire country, led and commented upon by the media, to curl into a collective fetal position and whimper. And, preposterously, such sniveling is regarded as a sign of strength. If you don't snivel, it is because you are afraid to express your feelings, and therefore need professional help. Dr. Phil and an army of tax-funded therapists will be on after the break to teach you how to snivel better.

Our response to Sniperman is a microcosm of our response to "Global Terrorism": we crawl on our knees and beg the U.N. for permission to defend ourselves... Meanwhile, we should be taking our cues from the Israeli Army--who, in response to a "palestinian" son-of-a-bitch blowing himself to bits along with innocent Israeli victims, is to predictably, (and without first asking permission) bulldoze down the cesspool raghead neighborhood that spawned and raised the now-vaporized raghead into the venomous mother-killer that he grew to be.

Predictable--Punctual--Precise

But we, taking our advice from the French (who have already sent an envoy to Sniperman's home to surrender to him) are zigzagging across the K-Mart parking lot to buy more Kleenex...

posted by huggy 8:01 PM

Tuesday, October 15, 2002

 

ANOTHER OPINION:

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YOUR FRIENDLY, LOCAL, NEIGHBORHOOD SNIPERMAN
By John Birch, President, Concealed Carry, Inc., PO BOX 4597, Oak Brook, IL 60523, Tel: 630 660-3935 Fax: 815 327-1152 Email: john@concealcarry.org

Okay, I admit it. I'm fascinated by Sniperman. And curious too. If you are squeamish I advise you to stop reading right here. If you don't stop, don't send me nasty email saying "How could you write such things! Mercy!" This column is not about the victims, this is about Sniperman.

Frankly Sniperman is doing gun owners no favors by taking out innocent civilians. Every gun owner hating psycho out there is using him as the example of a typical gun owner. Worse, they are dancing again in innocent blood to push for actual or de facto registration of guns. See below story.

Anyway, the military in me has gotten the better of me and I find myself unable to resist a "bench rest" analysis.

I am guessing whoever the Sniperman is that he is quite intelligent, with more a goal of amassing points to his ego than terrifying the populace. I think he enjoys "sticking it to the cops" more than he does the actual killing.

As any reader of John Ross's "Unintended Consequences" can tell you it would be expected that the targets would represent agents of alleged or actual tyranny - they don't. But it's his gun, and his bullets, so I guess he makes the rules....for now...until the police capture or, more likely, kill him.

In my parallax view the Sniperman is being about 10% as effective as he could be. If I wanted to terrify the population the way I would do it is to start out with a series of shootings, as Sniperman did, to establish my bona fides. But then I'd get it out to the press the exact make and model weapon I used plus the exact brand and type of ammo. I'd make sure to pick the most common of rifles and ammo. AR-15 anyone?

Why pray tell would I do that? In a word: Copycats. One man can only do so much. To spread terror you need to propagate your movement. I don't live in Montgomery County, MD so I am not the least bit afraid. But if others took up an identical rifle/ammo and the shooting spread out from Maryland like spokes on a bicycle...I'd be seriously concerned.

Some of the copycats would no doubt have personal grudges to settle and taking out an enemy this way would just put the blame on Sniperman. Others would have beefs with the IRS, local police, etc. to settle. Who knows what they would scope out?

In short order the police, who are already totally overwhelmed, would be so concerned with self-preservation that I would guess civil disorder would result sporadically across the nation.

Since Sniperman apparently prefers to communicate with his rifle, and not via the press, I am concluding his goal is personal, and he's not part of any "terrorist" group with a definable objective. I say this with all due deference to J. J. Johnson who would disagree.

I expect we will have another "communication" from Sniperman before the day is out. In the meantime I remain curious as all get out. Maybe that makes me morbid in some people's eyes. I think it makes me normal.

My advice to the DC area cops: He's sent you one warning already. I'd be in body armor (yes, I now the .223 goes through ballistic nylon, but better than a Fruit of the Lomb T-Shirt) and hope he doesn't become adept at head shots. Also, whatever you do, do NOT release the type of weapon he's using nor the brand/type of ammo until he's caught/killed. Also, do not make any references that you have the slightest control of the situation. Every time you open your mouth Sniperman will prove you wrong. Remember what happened when you said it was safe for kids to go to school?

Of course it might not be Sniperman. Could be Snipermen. Doubt it's Sniperwoman. Citizens with tips for the police can mail them to: P.O. Box 7875, Gaithersburg, Md., 20898-7875

Perhaps you have a Sniperman theory? Please share it. mailto:john@concealcarry.org

posted by huggy 8:48 PM

Wednesday, October 09, 2002

 

So, this isn't an opinion of which I am terribly proud--and one that may wind me up in jail someday, but here it is: You have got to hand it to the Maryland Sniper--he is doing his best to, in accordance with his own standards, THIN THE HERD.

As I look around at the state of our modern society and the world in general, I think of the justification the Disney's Wonderful World of Color gave for following predators around and cheerfully narrating their brutal conquest of weaker prey: "It is survival of the fittest. The [insert predator name here] is doing the [insert prey species here] herd a favor, by eliminating the weaker and less fit members of the herd so that only the stronger and healthy members can breed and reproduce"...

As I look around our "herd", it is obvious that, as Harvey Danger said so eloquently, "only stupid people are breeding", and it will (according to all I have been able to absorb about genetics and selective breeding) mean our eventual demise. So, someone who has the balls to do his own "elimination of undesireables" has to, (to a point) be admired. If only his selection procedure were more obvious.

If the sniper were following some script, rather that his apparent random targeting of innocents, I might be able to quietly get behind his endevors, at least philosophically. If he seemed to be targeting urban/gangster/subhumans, or terrorist/america-and-jew-hating/ragheads, or never-should-have-been-given-a license/cellphone-addicted/air-headed-motor-mouths, there would be those (of us) in society who might nominate him for an award...

...but it's only an opinion...

posted by huggy 10:58 PM

 

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